The academic writing economy instantiates the flexible labor of circulation capitalism.

Evidence

Nelson’s conjugation of autoemanation with professional agility raises the specter of the flexibility that has been the buzzword of circulation capitalism, often gilded with aesthetic caché as a “creative economy,” that also shapes the day jobs and credentialing of many would-be literary authors. … “Writing” as academic formation disperses itself “across the disciplines” and covers courses and concentrations in professional and technical writing, business writing, science writing, media writing, publishing, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing. … Central to this growth is the boom of “creative non-fiction” as a capacious binder for expressive documentary across memoir and journalism, which is also reflected at the graduate level in new specialized academic programs like the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing or King’s College Network for Life-Writing Research. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 140

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the Jameson line: flexible specialization and post-Fordism producing institutional forms; ties to the reader’s judgment of Kornbluh’s structural debt to Jameson.